Baby swimming .........

In week 43 when Sofie was 9½ weeks old I started going to baby swimming with her in 'DGI byen'. There are 12 babies each with one of their parents in our class and Sofie is the youngest. The first lesson went well and parents were taught how to hold their babies in water whilst floating on their stomachs and backs and then rotating back and forth between the two. Its a 10 week course and apparently babies can swim under water quite quickly. Below are a few photos of Sofie's swimming progress.

Sofie in her new swimming suit. Babies don't wear diapers in these which sounds 'dangerous'. I hope they can cope with potential mishaps. At 9½ weeks of age Sofie weighed in at 5080 g and had thus put on 1840 g since her birth!
















Sofie's second lesson at 10½ weeks of age. We start each lesson with a song...............I was the only mum amidst 10 dads in this lesson!









......... babies are then introduced to floating on their stomachs.













Having a break and a laugh!
















Sofie floating on her back and smiling up to the camera!













The lesson ends with a song and a good look in the mirror. In this photo Sofie's image got her to laugh a lot.














After swimming Sofie is usually exhausted !! In this photo we let her come into our bed and even though we both vowed she would never sleep with us she got to nap with her dad for 3 hours !














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